Keeping the name Russell Office Building, Mehrens wrote, after "an avowed racist, Democrat segregationist, stands as a symbol 'of the injustices endured by Americans' of African-American descent in the segregated South by racist Democrat administrations and legislatures."

"What could be more disparaging to Americans of African-American descent?" Mehrens asked.

Mehrens proposed that the building be renamed the Hiram Rhodes Revels Senate Office Building. Revels was the first black senator elected after the Civil War, in 1870, and a Republican, for the state of Mississippi.

"Renaming the building after Revels, a suggestion first made by Washington, D.C.-based talk show host Chris Plante, could be the first of many recompenses Democrat leaders such as yourself might undertake, particularly considering the Party's historic support of both slavery and segregation policies, to scrub the Capitol clean of its racist, Democrat history," Mehrens explained.

"The Russell Senate Office Building remains a stain on the honorable institution that is the Senate. We urge you to consider renaming it with the same haste you have urged the Redskins to change their name," the Mehrens letter to Reid concluded.

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